FINALLY, a real martial artists shows all those fag MMA guys how it's done. Hopefully, this will cause a massive paradigm shift for the MA community, although I wanted it to be that Leonard Shaw who did that:

yeah that was pretty damn cool, and i like that he just used a standard mma stance rather than the up-rock thing those capoiera guys do. I've said before that a lot of TMA's have a lot to offer if their techniques can be lifted out of their traditional training methods and brought into a modern, performance based curriculum like that of the SBG.

Hmmm.. something tells me, its really the novelty value that is getting these guys the victories. Okay, hard work, training, all are important but something itches.. telling me that it is really because their opponents have NEVER seen that type of stuff before.

If that KO was delivered from a rear spin kick from standing up, I would think the other professional fighter would not hesistate to close that gap. Or am I missing something? Maybe the capoeira kick, with his upper body moving to the ground delivers way more power, esp since he seemed a lot less willing to do a real block after his first kick.

There's nothing to grab a hold onto or to quickly strike against when he's crouched down in a kick like that, even if you do avoid the kick to rush in. In that kind of position the Capoiera could just mule kick you, wrestler style. Maybe if you counter with a drop kick to disrupt his motion.

My personal opinion is that the MMA guy really needed to be up close. He was in serious trouble when he faded and let the Capoiera guy dictate the fight range, and even moreso when the Capoiera guy started spinning with all that momentum.